BILL NUMBER: SCR 26	CHAPTERED  09/02/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   93
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 26, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JULY 8, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Costa

                        MARCH 16, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 26--Relative to a friendship
state relationship with Inner Mongolia.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 26, Costa.  Inner Mongolia:  friendship state relationship.
   This measure would extend an invitation to the people of the Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region of China to join with California in a
friendship state relationship.




   WHEREAS, We live in an interconnected world with global economic,
environmental, and immigration concerns, making international
cooperation, education, and cultural understanding increasingly
important; and
   WHEREAS, The Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China has
expressed interest in the creation of a friendship state relationship
with the State of California; and
   WHEREAS, Inner Mongolia and the State of California share many
economic, agricultural, and energy resource similarities, such as an
important tourism industry, extensive agriculture, and large wind
farm developments for rural electrification; and
   WHEREAS, The industries of Inner Mongolia and the State of
California are sufficiently different to warrant trade; and
   WHEREAS, Inner Mongolia contains large deposits of metals such as
iron, niobium, and other precious rare earth metals, and is one of
China's most important steel and coal producers; and
   WHEREAS, Inner Mongolia's railways link Beijing, the Chinese
capital, with the northeast and key cities like Lanzhou, and form one
section of the second trunk line of northern China's mainland from
east to west; and
   WHEREAS, The Inner Mongolia University is committed to becoming
more open to the outside world, and is working to better serve
economic development and educational reform; and
   WHEREAS, Inner Mongolia is currently integrating renewable sources
of energy in the form of wind and photovoltaic systems, and shares
technological similarities with wind farm companies in the State of
California; and
   WHEREAS, Both California and Inner Mongolia have ethnically
diverse populations and are concerned with peaceful coexistence of
the many cultures within their borders; and
   WHEREAS, A friendship state relationship would promote mutual
trade and commerce, and increase the potential for educational,
environmental, and cultural relations between Inner Mongolia and the
State of California; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California,
on behalf of the people of California, extends to the people of the
Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China an invitation to join with
California in a friendship state relationship in order to encourage
and facilitate mutually beneficial economic, educational,
environmental, and cultural exchanges and to lead to a more indelible
and lasting relationship between Californians and the citizens of
the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Consul General of China, to the Government of
Inner Mongolia, to the Governor of California, and to each Senator
and Representative from California in the Congress of the United
States.
